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What is Wrong with Mark O'Mara?; Zimmerman Angela Corey
Topic Started: Jun 6 2012, 08:23 PM (981 Views)
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I wanted to ask this question and opened this thread for Internet search-related reasons.

I'm saying something is wrong with Mark O'Mara representing Zimmerman.

This is how he words this statement to the Media after he throws his client overboard:

"You need to realize we're still talking about a 28-year-old who's being charged with a crime he does not believe he committed, and his whole life has been turned upside down," the lawyer said. "So I think that it all needs to be kept in context."


He does not believe he committed? Huh? Are you serious? There's a hell of an advocate for you.

This is after O'Mara has said his client learned his lesson regarding lying (when defendant's have the right to remain silent in criminal trials) and that his client damaged his credibility.

I think O'Mara is either incompetent or scared to death of the State's Attorney.


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Edited by Mason, Jun 6 2012, 08:27 PM.
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It looks like O'Mara is trying to maintain some sort of middle ground and not rock the boat too much.

(Maybe GZ should hire Alan Dershowitz.)
Edited by foxglove, Jun 6 2012, 08:35 PM.
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Jun 6 2012, 08:34 PM
It looks like O'Mara is trying to maintain some sort of middle ground and not rock the boat too much.

(Maybe GZ should hire Alan Dersowitz.)
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I think it's really worse than middle ground.

If your own attorney won't take the evidence in the most positive light in media statements - then something's up.

He's torpedoed Zimmerman about 3 or 4 times now, his own client.

How close can one get to incompetent representation at this point?


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Edited by Mason, Jun 6 2012, 08:50 PM.
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If you start out judging OMara by using the idea that following the bond hearing his strategy was to let the case grow dormant for a few months, short of discovery being resolved, we're absent any need for him to concentarte all his time on it to make himself more aware of the facts ...as discovery comes in.

I've suspected that the state staff outside of Corey's office wants it to happen that way, so I would not be shaken if OMara has received calls from someone close to the governor.

OMara's remarks have been questionable at times. Most are to the media, so they do little or no harm.
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Jun 6 2012, 08:34 PM
It looks like O'Mara is trying to maintain some sort of middle ground and not rock the boat too much.

(Maybe GZ should hire Alan Dershowitz.)
Maybe Dershowitz should volunteer.

But back to O'Mara. He might just think playing nice and not getting bombastic might be the best course of action with this judge. A judge can make or break your case. He might be holding out hope that he might throw this case out. Of course after what I have seen over the last few years out of judges I wouldn't bet on it. He also might be trying to delay all this till after the presidential elections. But of course while he does that Zimmerman is being punished in jail.

Then again maybe he is there to see that Zimmerman takes a deal or goes down so the state doesn't burn.

Whatever it is, I am not impressed with O'Mara.
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Would any of you want a Defense lawyer that can't bring himself to say you're innocent? Or Not guilty?

I looked it up to be certain - Jose Baez said before the Trial of Casey Anthony, to the Media, - "She Is Innocent."

With friends like O'Mara......

He may believe he's not allowed to say his client is Innocent, or not guilty, which would make for an interesting opening statement. My Client is not as bad as many Florida Murderers.....

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You know I get the whole strategy of keeping the Judge happy, but throwing your client overboard is another matter. He made a public statement to the Media that Zimmerman's credibility has been damaged. Huh? Whaaat? Seriously?

I would think it would be better to argue for your client - put a bond hearing in context, put the benefit to the wife's statements in context, and separate it from the case for which he is charged - but O'Mara links them!

I'm telling you this is bad. O'Mara may even be trying to get Corey to focus more on a plea deal and forgoing any and all trial work.

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Assumming this case goes to Trial, what do you think, they're going to be maybe 50 witnesses?

Now, it seems there is a Precedent agreed to by the Judge, the Prosecution, and Mark O'Mara that if any of those witnesses mistate part of their testimony - the Onus is on George to correct it.

That's how crazy this thing is. They act as if there is no right to remain silent in a criminal trial.

I have this feeling there's a backroom - and the rules are being made up right there.

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Were I an attorney representing a client I hoped to bargain a plea for, I'd start out by arguing all the time that my client was an innocent angel and that the prosecution did not have a case.

Otherwise it would be like trying sell a used car by pointing out problems it had.
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Kbp,

I am searching for why O'Mara is so seemingly unconcerned with the Jury Pool and public opinion.

Jose Baez (before the trial): She is Innocent and she wants her day in court.

O'Mara: we must remember, he's charged with a crime he believes he did not commit.

I am outraged, really.

And that's on top of saying that Zimmerman had damaged his credibility.

A Plea was just one answer for not caring about the Public opinion and the Jury Pool.


Edited by Mason, Jun 6 2012, 10:40 PM.
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Maybe Mo'm thinks they have a SYG hearing in the bag...

A dangerous assumption...
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This is all MOO, but I base what I'm about to write on being an observer of our local courts, DAs, and attorneys in the three judicial districts that I have covered up-close for 3 years.

The problem is that O'Mara is a Florida attorney and is worried about what will happen to his career AFTER the Zimmerman case is long gone.

The judge/DA/attorney/LE cabal in an area where they all live and work every day is a very delicate balance. The least tremor or upset at one end is transmitted throughout the organism instantly. They all know one another's business, know who's on vacation, how their families are doing, what their kids are up to - everything.

Such an organism cannot stand to have in its midst anything or anyone who is too independent, or it might threaten the balance.

O'Mara is part of such an organism and is fully aware that every move he makes is closely monitored.

He is too scared to give his client full value.

Note in the Duke Frame how the independent that we've all become friends with - Bob Ekstrand - has come under attack by the establishment. The bar has censured him for a minor infraction several months ago.

That was not a coincidence. O'Mara is not the man Bob Ekstrand is, and Zimmerman is in jeopardy because of it.

http://www.heraldsun.com/view/full_story/16070670/article-N-C--Bar-censures-Durham-attorney?instance=homesixthleft

http://www.markomaralaw.com/Attorney-Profile/Mark-M-O-mara.shtml

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abb, you also just described Woody Vann. At least in Woody's case, he always found something good to say about Crystal.
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Jun 7 2012, 07:04 AM
abb, you also just described Woody Vann. At least in Woody's case, he always found something good to say about Crystal.
Woody Vann was/is a snake, and completely in the tank for The Machine. O'Mara, so far as I've seen is reasonably principled and honest. But he knows how the cabal keeps folks who "ain't got their mind right" in line. And he's scared of that.
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If the case goes to trial, O'Mara can ask for a change in venue. The Florida panhandle might be a good place.
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